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Call Out Culture

Music EN ↓ 371 episodes

Call Out Culture is a podcast about rap music hosted by Alaska, Curly Castro and Zilla Rocca - three long time practitioners and lifetime fans.  These dudes know what the hell they are talking about.  Every episode is a deep dive into an artist or a concept.  With close to 50 years of artistry and 70 years of fandom combined in the three hosts, it is safe to say, that you are going to get perspectives that you will not find in other podcasts about the genre.

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Tim

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Music

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Oppenheimer Review 16.08.2023

The fellas do a full and thorough review of the new Christopher Nolan epic about the man who unleashed hell during WWII along with update Nolan movie power rankings, favorite performances, and other Manhattan Project recommendations!

One Shot: F The 6ers 15.08.2023

Previously only available to our Patreon subscribers, this One Shot with Zilla Rocca was recorded in 2 parts: first on Mother's Day after the Sixers were humiliated in Game 7 by the hated Boston Celtics, and the following day to evaluate the continued slimy dreck that is the Sixers organization. This episode has proven to be prophetic, as Doc Rivers has since been shitcanned, James Harden has...

Call Out Culture: Frankenstein an MC Fantasy Draft w/ Fatboi Sharif and Steel Tipped Dove 07.08.2023

This week we are joined by Fatboi Sharif and Steel Tipped Dove for a journey to Frankenstein's laboratory where we create the perfect MC out of the traits of other MCs in the first annual Frankenstein an MC Fantasy Draft. Sharif and Dove have a great new album out called Decay which you can get here: https://backwoodzstudioz.com/collections/decay As always, for exclusive content and early epis...

Call Out Culture Presents: Used Records with Zilla Rocca: Incubus' Make Yourself Feat. Alex Ludovico 06.08.2023

It's what the streets have been begging for: Alex Ludovico and Zilla talking Incubus! This is a special Used Records about the nu-metal, Clinton-era, mild mannered, and agreeable " beta-male band" (as stated by Rolling Stone) and their breakthrough LP "Make Yourself" from 1999! And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.c...

200th Episode Mailbag 31.07.2023

This week we celebrate out 200th episode with a listener mailbag! And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Talk Your Talk w/ Alaska: This week's guest Gary Suarez 24.07.2023

This week we are joined by journalist Gary Suarez. We discuss his career path, philosophy with regards to his work, criticism as an artform and the Cabbages empire, and more. You can find all Gary's work here: https://linktr.ee/imgarysuarez And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Justified: City Primeval" E1&2 Recap with Zilla 21.07.2023

Zilla is over the goddamn MOON that Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens is back for the new season of "Justified". Set in Detroit, with wall to wall beloved character actors, the new series is a step sideways from the classic show that ran on FX with Walton Goggins, Jere Burns, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, and more. Opening beat is "Wynn Duffy" by The Expert and Zilla Rocca o...

The Bear Season 2 Recap Feat. PremRock, TweetsVanZandt & MaxNoPo 17.07.2023

This week we are joined by three veterans of the service industry (PremRock, TweetsVanZandt and MaxNoPo) to discuss Season 2 of the Bear! You can find PremRock here: https://planetpremrock.bandcamp.com/ TweetsVanZandt here: https://twitter.com/TweetsVanZandt And MaxNoPo here: https://twitter.com/MaxNoPo For early access to episodes and exclusive content please be sure to support our Patreon: https...

Crew Love Boot Camp Clik (BCC) 29.06.2023

This week we offer the second installment in our Crew Love series where we discuss the Boot Camp Clik (BCC)! We are joined by longtime friend of the pod GENG PTP!  You can find all things GENG PTP related here: https://linktr.ee/gengptp As always, for exclusive content and early access to episodes please join our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Lineage of Greatness: Heavy D feat. Grap Luva 20.06.2023

This week we are joined by Grap Luva to discuss the legacy of his cousin Heavy D! You can find Grap Luva at the following places: Bandcamp Twitter For early access to episodes and exclusive content please be sure to support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Call Out Culture Presents: Used Records with Zilla Rocca: Showbiz & AG's Full Scale 17.06.2023

This week, Zilla spotlights Showbiz & AG's 1998 EP Full Scale. For early access to episodes and exclusive content please be sure to support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Blindspot: Blahzay Blahzay's Blah Blah Blah 13.06.2023

Castro is back! This week we offer up a new blindspot episode. We will dive into 1996's Blah Blah Blah by the group Blahzay Blahzay. As always you can get this episode early and exclusive content via our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

The Curious Case of Jay-Z and Linkin Park feat Milc 30.05.2023

Mash-up culture. All brown Ecko outfits. CDs selling 2 million copies. Yes we are going back to the turn of the century for one of the oddest releases in music history from Linkin Park and Jay-Z with "Collision Course". Portland's finest And 1 mixtape hooper and spitta MILC makes his first appearance to talk about Mike Shinoda being emo Guru, Hov influencing his junior high dance out...

Talk Your Talk w/ Alaska - This Week's Guest Geng PTP 23.05.2023

This week we are joined by friend of the pod GENG PTP. Traditionally when GENG joins us it is to talk music, but this episode focuses on his design work and his journey into becoming one of the most influential designers in the NYC underground. You can find all things GENG PTP here: https://linktr.ee/gengptp As always, you can get early episodes and exclusives at our Patreon page: https://www.patr...

Ask Zilla Rocca (not Alaska) 15.05.2023

This week Zilla Rocca takes of the the Ask Alaska reigns and answers all of your questions! And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Reviewing The Source's 100 Issue 08.05.2023

This week we take a look back at the state of hip hop in 1998 according to The Source Magazine's 100th issue. We discuss their choices for best albums, best rapper, best song, best beat, best producer and so much more.  Did their choices hold up? Did they even make sense at the time? Is this the first sign that things were amiss at the publication?  You will have to listen to find out. For ear...

Call Out Culture Presents: Used Records with Zilla Rocca: Curren$y's Pilot Talk's 06.05.2023

This week, Zilla spotlights Curren$y's 2010 album Pilot Talk. For early access to episodes and exclusive content please be sure to support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Blind Box Hot Potato 01.05.2023

This week Zilla and Alaska go back and forth sharing songs that they think the other has not heard. We listen to the following: #1 FKJ feat ((o)) 2 Kelis “jerk ribs” #3 The Comet is Coming “summon the fire “ #4 Ghetts “you know my ting” #5 Juan Gabriel “No tengo dinero” #6 Charles Arznour “La Boheme” #7 wasp “I wanna be somebody” #8 Moneybagg Yo “time today” #9 tame one  #10 black Rob “you know wh...

Talk Your Talk w/ Alaska: This week's guest Alexander Richter 28.04.2023

This week we are joined by photographer and documentarian Alexander Richter. We discuss his career path, philosophy with regards to his work, Backwoodz, and more. You can find all Alexander's work here: https://alexanderrichterphoto.com/ And you can find the Dark Brother Rise documentary here: https://alexanderrichterphoto.com/Dark-Brother-Rise----Film/1 And as always for early access and excl...

The Soft White Boy Rock Tournament Feat. Alex Ludovico, Jesse the Tree and Wally Clark 24.04.2023

It is tourney time! This week we are joined by Alex Ludovico, Jesse the Tree and Wally Clark for the Soft White Boy Rock Tournament. We take 64 songs from the soft white boy greats like The Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms, Train, Hootie and the Blowfish, Bare Naked Ladies and more and run them through a grueling 5 round march madness style battle of wills. Stick around until the end for the surprising...

Live from the Liner Notes: The Structural Dynamics of Flow feat. Steel Tipped Dove 17.04.2023

This week we are joined by Steel Tipped Dove to discuss The Structural Dynamics of Flow, his new album with Alaska. You can purchase the structural dynamics of flow on bandcamp or directly through steel tipped doves label Fused Arrow Records . And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Call Out Culture Presents: Talk Your Talk with Alaska: This week's guest is Roy Christopher 10.04.2023

Talk Your Talk is a new podcast series from Call Out Culture where we explore the people whose work focuses on music but they themselves are not necessarily musicians.  In our first episode we talk with Roy Christopher about his books Dead Precedents and Boogie Down Predictions and how technology and humans interact.  You can find all things Roy Christopher related here:https://roychristopher.com/...

Taking a TR"L" feat. Jesse The Tree 03.04.2023

This week we are joined by Call Out Cultist favorite Jesse The Tree. Jesse joins us for our 2nd episode in the Taking a TR"L" series where we examine the careers of the biggest stars of MTV's TRL era. This episode we discuss the careers of Chingy, Sean Paul and Ja Rule. We also made surprising side quests into the career of Michael Buble. Be sure to check out "i'm fakin'...

Call Out Culture Presents: Used Records with Andrew: The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia 01.04.2023

This week, Andrew sits in for Zilla on Used Records and spotlights Songs: Ohia's 2003 album The Magnolia Electric Co.. For early access to episodes and exclusive content please be sure to support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Lineage of Greatness - The Bomb Squad 29.03.2023

This week we discuss the importance and the mastery of the hip hop production team The Bomb Squad which is made up of Chuck D, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, and Gary G-Wiz. We pay particular attention to their work on three landmark records - The Public Enemy albums "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and "Fear of a Black Planet, and Ice...

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